苦節

Chinese

		bitter; intensely; miserable bitter; intensely; miserable; painful	festival; section; segment festival; section; segment; point; part; to economize; to save; temperate
trad. (苦節)		苦	節
simp. (苦节)		苦	节

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kǔjiè

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨˇ ㄐㄧㄝˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kǔjiè
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨˇ ㄐㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kǔjiè
    • Wade–Giles: kʻu³-chieh⁴
    • Yale: kǔ-jyè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuujieh
    • Palladius: куцзе (kucze)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/

Noun

苦節

1. (～卦) A combination 一上一中 in the Lingqijing.

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (苦節):

• → Korean: 고절(苦節) (gojeol)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
苦	節
く Grade: 3	せつ Grade: 4
on’yomi

Alternative spelling
苦節 (kyūjitai)

Noun

苦(く)節(せつ) • (kusetsu) 

1. dedication, perseverance, unwavering effort, devotion
   • 1996, Masahiro Mita, Jūnana-sai de kangaeta koto [Thoughts at seventeen years old], page 8:

     だがぼくの場合(ばあい)はそこに至(いた)るまでに、いわゆる「苦節(くせつ)十年(じゅうねん)」の寂(さび)しい鍛錬(たんれん)の時期(じき)があった。

     Da ga boku no bāi wa soko ni itaru made ni, iwayuru “kusetsu jūnen” no sabishī tanren no jiki ga atta.

     However, in my case arriving there followed a so-called “perseverance decade”, a period of solitary training.